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North East Township Issues Note at 3.5%

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Notice is hereby given that on July 1, 2015, at the North East Township Building, 10300 West Main Road, North East, Pennsylvania, the officers of North East Township enacted an Ordinance, authorizing the issuance of a General Obligation Note in the principal amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand ($250,000) Dollars and the private sale thereof […]

North East Township Issuing $250,000 General Obligation Note

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Notice is hereby given that on July 1, 2015, at 9:00 A.M. at the North East Township Building, 10300 West Main Road, North East, Pennsylvania, the Board of Supervisors will act on an Ordinance (of which this is a summary), authorizing the issuance of and awarding of its Two Hundred Fifty Thousand ($250,000) Dollar, principal […]

Complete North East Area Comprehensive Plan

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Yesterday, I was asked about the remainder of the comprehensive plan, which we have not covered yet. The township will be holding a rezoning hearing on July 6th and since this plan was mentioned during both planning commission and supervisors meetings while discussing this rezoning and because some residents want to see the rest of […]

North East Township Public Hearing to Consider Zoning Change

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The North East Township Supervisors and Planning Commission will hold a meeting on Monday, July 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm at the North East Township Municipal Building, 10300 West Main Road, North East, PA to consider two rezoning requests. Lloyd and Joan Bemiss for their property with Tax ID# 37-024-103.0-026.00 and Joseph and Paula Warr […]

Do You Know What North East Township Has Planned for Zoning?

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The comprehensive plan we’ve been discussing has many parts, but we’re jumping ahead just a bit because there will soon be a public hearing to consider a rezoning request. As we noted already, during the last planning meeting, residents were told the rezoning request was in line with “the plan,” and what we were told […]

Burch Farms Country Market Files for Bankruptcy Protection

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The Erie Times News is reporting this morning that Burch Farms Country Market has filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy protection. Burch Farms Inc., which operates Burch Farms Country Market on Sidehill Road, owes about $114,500 in employment and unemployment compensation taxes to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, according […]

Goals and Objectives of the North East Area Comprehensive Plan

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Every plan has a goal, whether it’s losing that last ten pounds, getting a college degree or finding a job, but the North East comprehensive plan is a lot more ambitious than that. The goals and objectives are to: … develop and preserve a pleasant, attractive, healthy, safe, efficient and convenient community environment for living, […]

What is the North East Area Comprehensive Plan?

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After attending many meetings of the planning commission and supervisors over the past two years, it was a bit unusual to hear “the plan” referred to in both meetings Monday evening during discussions of a rezoning issue. It has been mentioned before, though rarely, but Monday’s references by both planning commission alternate member Susan Sprague […]

Rezoning Issue Raises Tensions in Planning and Supervisors Meetings

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The Monday evening meetings of both the North East Township planning commission and the supervisors brought a group of residents from the neighborhood centered on South Washington street to air concerns over a proposed rezoning, from R2 residential to B1 commercial, of a property, owned by Lloyd and Joan Bemiss, adjacent to the Roberts Trucking […]